I’m sitting here thinking about my 64 years as a sister of a Down Syndrome brother and my 48 years as a speech pathologist. It has been a journey. It’s years of making mistakes, learning how to admit it and toss away my ego, finding ways to connect in innovative with my clients and families, […]

Disorders of Fluency are my favorite areas of therapy. I find it fascinating that such an organic process such as speech could have so many non-organic factors that affect production of speech. There is the classic organic factor of heredity, but then the list of non-organic factors begins. I do find the anxiety issue that […]

Apraxia link collection Apraxia of speech is a big issue, and we plan to do a couple posts on the issue. But to start: Childhood apraxia of speech, via ASHA Childhood apraxia of speech symptoms, via the Mayo Clinic Apraxia kids homepage Apraxia – A Healing Story

A few days ago, I covered what you could do to help during National Autism Awareness Month. Today, I want to talk about some of the nation’s top autism organizations. We already touched briefly on both the Autism Society of America and the Autism Self Advocacy Network. The Autism Society of America was founded “in […]

National Autism Awareness Month is winding down, but there’s still plenty to talk about. First, a couple of introductory points. 1. What is Autism Awareness Month? This has been addressed before on both our website and on our previous blog, but Autism Awareness month is, simply put, a campaign to point as many eyes as possible […]

A good resource for people who stutter is the Stuttering Foundation. There’s a wealth of information for teachers, parents, and kids. A link I posted on my Facebook yesterday that I found particularly helpful: FAQs for teachers There’s also free E-books and videos as well as pretty deep resource list Their mission statement sums up what they’re […]

For the next few weeks, I want to focus on stuttering, particularly how the disorder in children can be managed and approached, and how it can affect their lives if left untreated. In the meantime, ASHA (as usual) has a good rundown: “Stuttering affects the fluency of speech. It begins during childhood and, in some cases, lasts […]

2 Recent Articles 1. “Gastrointestinal symptoms more common in children with autism“ “A new study indicates that children with autism spectrum disorder are more than four times more likely to experience general gastrointestinal complaints compared with peers, are more than three times as prone to experience constipation and diarrhea than peers, and complain twice as […]

2 Recent Articles 1. “Extra Brain Synapses Appear a Hallmark of Autism“ A fairly in-depth article, but a few takeaways include: a hypothesis that extra synapses in newborn children with autism are not “pruned” during adolescence that a drug, rapamycin, which helps “autism-like behavior in mice” may, in the future, help find possible treatments for […]